"You do not want to disobey my orders now, do you?" Alpha Colten's voice came out in the form of a threat and a dare.
He knew no one could defy his orders and so did I.
But somehow, I was hoping that Darasmus would do so. I was in high and eager expectations knowing fully well that my mate will do everything to keep me with him.
"If the Lord pleases." His words shattered my heart in multiple pieces. Nothing could explain the hurt I felt when I heard him say those words out.
I whimpered as my wolf growled inside me. I was angry, hurt and betrayed.
Alpha Colten smirked and then with a raised hand, he ordered that the horses start to be moving. I just remained in my cage, watching as we started moving. It is over.... My mate ceremony.
I couldn't even believe that this was happening to me.
Why me? What did I ever do to bare such a cursed fate? To be taken and slaughtered in a land other than my own. I felt broken, battered and disappointed.
So the mate bond meant nothing to him. It meant nothing to him that he marked me in front of everyone present here, under the moonlight and while the stars danced in the sky. It meant nothing at all, the intimate moments we were to share together as a mated couple....
I'm disappointed.
His voice echoed in my mind, saying, "Take care. I'm sorry." His wolf was whimpering. He was really sorry. But that didn't change the fact that today, he decided to give me out to the Alpha of Morcliff to be slaughtered like a lamb for sacrifice.
"I don't know what to say. I didn't get the chance to know you, Sir Darasmus. But today, I got to know everything about you, leaving no detail behind. You are a greedy monster. A backstabbing mate and the worst mistake of the moon for me. I wish you farewell. Please annul our mate bond so you can live well."
"The heavens forbid I do such. This is the cross I will bear all my life, the punishment for my betrayal. I will forever love you, Elliana d'Avalanche."
I hissed at the words love... "You are my mate." He added and it just increased the anger in me.
I forthwith blocked my mind link with him. If I were his mate and he loved me as he claimed, then he wouldn't have done what he did.
I sat back on the cold floor of the cage, inside the dark wagon, with my body swaying to the pebbles that acted as road blocks to our journey. I began reminiscing over my life... My parents didn't even care to look up.. Who would have, if the person was in front of a man as terrible as Alpha Colten.
Fragments of flashes into my past, when I was still a kid and my sister was given out to a certain man I didn't know. I was 6 and she just turned 19.
Her mate was a traveling wolf from the South. He was journeying to the North when he made a stop at our village.. And that day, it was her birthday.
"Sister are you going to leave me, today?" I questioned.
Reyella's eyes were a hazel, fiery red set of round eyes. Her hair were as fiery as her eyes. She had taken after our mother when it came to such appearances.
Her body was a spotless fair skin although mine had been comparably fairer to hers.
She smiled and sat me down. "Ellie! One day, you will understand. You might have to journey a cross the world with your mate, just as me. The moon chooses and we can only comply." By then, it sounded like fun, but as I grew older, it sounded like punishment.
Everyone was to have the rights of choice. The moon goddess couldn't just chose for us.
However, with time again, I became accustomed and looked forward to the man the goddess had set apart for me.
"Sister, please don't leave me." I beckoned her. But at the end of the day, she traveled with her mate. A young wolf like her, who was journeying far away. I was going to miss her, so badly.
"I miss her." I muttered calmly, now in the present and the flat reality of my current situation.
The cold was so much for me and I wished for some warmth.
Thoughts of Alpha Colten's face crashed in my mind. Seeing him walk up to me and wrap his hands round my body, giving me the warmth I desire.
Then all of a sudden, he pulls back and starts laughing at me. I can't bear the shame as his voice echoes in my head with his loud laughing.
"Do you want me to come?" He asks while laughing but I keep silent. All these are my thoughts so I open my eyes and then remain on the cold floor. It's absurd that I think of the Alpha of Morcliff, the one who is taking me for the slaughter. I think, I will not be able survive this.
If I do make it out alive, then I will narrate this as my story... The story of a girl who was taken captive by the wicked and cold blooded but handsome looking Alpha Colten of Morcliff.
I hear a faint chuckle and his voice again in my head. "You think I am handsome?" It says.
I frown to myself, angered by the dirty and cheap tricks my mind is playing on me. Why must I hear his voice when I am a few steps and hours away from death?
"You feel it too. Don't you?" His voice echoes in my head again and I suddenly open my eyes.
A mind link?
How is that possible? Am I still being tormented by the memories of this night and what will happen to me?
I began panicking and trembling. What is happening to me?
Why the harsh imaginations?
"You are not tormented. You are hearing me loud and clear. Although I am in your head." I hear his voice again in my head. I do not try to speak but rather try to block his mind link.
"Don't force yourself. You could end up dying in the process." He says and this only betters up my plan.
I force harder and harder, sweat trickling down my fore head but they flow like water. When I touch my head, it is blood. I smile at my achievement and then try harder, till I feel a hand hold me. I open my eyes faintly, weakly. I am weak but the last face I see is the Alpha's face and the last thing I heard.
"You were trying so hard to kill yourself."
***
When I open my eyes, I am no longer in a cage but in a room. My hands however are chained to the huge and comfortable bed. I look around and no one but me is in the room. I try to raise my head and the sharp pain makes me to let out a mild cry.
"Lie still." I hear Alpha Colten's authoritative voice and lay back in bed as if I am under some obedience spell. But that is not it.
I must be in Morcliff now. But who was it that appeared in front of me, right before I passed out. Was it the Alpha of Morcliff or was it a guard. I have no memory of who. It felt like I was touched by a god when he held me.
Whoever it was, I wish to meet him more often.